Mrs. de Peyster's Parties and Other Lively Studies from The New Yorker

xvi, 421, [7] pp. 8vo. A collection of Hellman Profiles taken from The New Yorker magazine, featuring such figures as Alfred A. Knopf, the Countess Mara, the architect Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, designer Norman Bel Geddes, Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair, PR expert Benjamin Sonnenberg, painter Chester Dale, Rene d'Harnoncourt of the MoMA, painter Diego Rivera, J. Otis Swift, Lieutenant Commander Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, Edward Ringwood Hewitt, etc. Hellman himself was the song of a rare book dealer, a Yale graduate, and a descendant of Joseph Seligman of the German-Jewish elite referred to as Our Crowd.